Saturday, March 31, 2012

Hi everybody. Before I reveal my card to you, I'd like to share with you some blog candy that I have on my blog with a deadline of April 15. I am giving away a Personal Cricut Machine! I hope that you enter your name for a chance to win! I have an InLinkz set up so all you have to do is enter your name.

In order to redeem myself from last week's disaster, I thought that I'd put a fun spin on this week's sketch challenge. Instead of using scallops, I used a Filigree Border that really put an elegant touch to this card. It was a very fun surprise to find out that while picking my lamp shade, the filigree design was incorporated into that, so of course I used it. I cut four full lengths of the Filigree border and added a 1/8" piece of Scor-Tape to the bottom of each. While working from the right side of the card to the left putting down my borders, I staggered them as Natasha suggested so that every other border was aligned to get the full effect of the pattern. I then spritzed the card with a mist or two of glimmer mist to tie the image (light/shine) in. I die-cut my images and sentiment, and then stamped them. The final step was adhering them to the card with foam dots.

I hope that you like this card and that it provides you with some inspiration. Enjoy!

Good morning. Here's this week's sketch. I realize it's a bit busier than usually, but I'm hoping you're up for the challenge! The main tip I have for the sketch, is be sure to stagger the scallops. If they are overlapped exactly, it just doesn't look quite right

Monday, March 26, 2012

Hi everybody. I made this very cool masculine golf card with great papers that was CAS with no white! Then I stamped my images and flipped. They were brand new and since January, I've been having a problem with my images picking up ink where it shouldn't be picking up so I have a manufacturer's defect on my hands. That is creative frustration! After I made this card, I didn't have time to start all over again but might add another card later this week to try to redeem myself for this one. Please overlook the blahs, which seem to be the entire card, down to fussy cutting out the golf bag. Let's look on the positive, there's great DP and I used Soft Stone for my neutral. If everything worked out the right way, this would have been a very cool masculine card :)

My ingredients are all Papertrey Ink using their On the Links stamp set with Soft Stone and Smokey Shadow card stock and my designer paper is Argyle Socks. The inks I used were Dark Chocolate, Enchanted Evening, and Smokey Shadow. Try to enjoy this and I will see you later with a nice card.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Hi everyone... I am a little late with the sketch from last week... I fell the other day and it left me not wanting to sit for too long to play.... instead I carved out a bit of time this morning to create a card for a baby shower I am heading off to in a minute...

Friday, March 23, 2012

Good morning! Here's this week's sketch. As usual, it's quite a basic design. It does make use of some circular elements, but if you don't have or don't like the round layer, you could always switch it out for something more linear.

Here's my card. I pretty much stuck to the sketch exactly. It felt like it was missing something, so I added a second little butterfly on the sentiment tag.

Friday, March 16, 2012

This was a hard sketch for me but I like the outcome. I used the PTI Blossom Builder die to create the flowers and a MS Butterfly punch. I stamped a polka dotted image with Dandelion Memento ink onto white cardstock and cut it out and then cut the banner end by hand.Supplies: Stamps - Mark's Finest Papers; Paper - Mark's Finest Papers; Ink - Memento; Misc - PTI Blossom Builder #3 Die, MS Butterfly Punch, Foam Squares

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Good evening! Here's this week's sketch! Surprisingly, I didn't go with stars, even though that's what I designed into the sketch. I just got Beautiful Butterflies, so I went with that (although, I don't recommend cutting out such tiny butterflies!)

Here's my take:

Pretty basic, right? I used 1-1/4 circles. Instead of using a label die, I simple cut a strip of cardstock, stamped it, then used the smaller corner rounder I have to give it that label look.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Good morning and welcome to another fun sketch by Natasha. For today's card, I stretched it a bit across the card stock to string a line of apples on twine. The association in my mind is twine, tree, apples. Weird, but it works. I hope that you enjoy this and I'll see you back next week! Have a great day.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

This is a one layer card - all stamping. The banner image is from Taylored expressions and I colored it with markers and then stamped it onto the card front. The sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink.Supplies: Stamps - Taylored Expressions, PaperTrey; Paper - PaperTrey; Ink - Memento; Misc - SU! Markers

Friday, March 9, 2012

Good morning! Here's this week's sketch, it's a one layer card of sorts. I was inspired by all the banner themes that have been quite trendy for the last year or so. You could choose to stamp directly on your card, or do as I did and attach a string with embellishments.

Here's my card:

I started with a Kraft base, since I really enjoy that for one layer cards. I also rounded the corners. I hadn't originally planned on a specific colour for the hearts. I thought about sponging the colour on, but that seemed a bit messy considering how small they are. Instead, I used a Copic marker to give the hearts a touch of red.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Good morning crafty people. I wanted to do something fun and springy for this challenge outside of the flower realm and grabbed this cute stamp set with mailboxes, colored them various hues of pink and paper pieced my envelopes. The grass is die-cut onto textured card stock and I sponged the edges, added my ribbon and sentiment banner, then popped it all up on foam dots for dimension. I used glue dots on the envelopes for dimension as well.

It's time for another sketch! Here it is, I've designed my card to measure 4x6.

Here's my card, and some measurement guidelines:

4x6 Card Base

3-7/8x5-7/8 Layer

3-7/8x1-3/4 Patterned Paper Piece

I was in a Baja Breeze sort of mood, and just went with it. I know I've had a card and sketch somewhat similar to this one, but what can I say, when you reach 180, it can start to get a bit trickier coming up with totally unique sketches.

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